Bbu bbu pfft, bbu bbu bbu pfft. Bbu pfft pfft bbu pfft, tuka tuka. I first began beatboxing when I was in fourth grade. I was an Asian kid with a bowl cut, respectful and shy, when a neighbor showed me a video of a man on French TV laying down the funkiest, freshest, grooviest beat I had ever heard. It was a mash-up of Michael Jackson's hit song "Billie Jean" and Usher's club banger "...

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Food matters. It is a way for people to express their lives and heritage through a medium other than speech. It is also a very specific representation of culture, whether the vegetarianism that is so prominent in India due to the spread of Buddhism and Jainism, or the prevalence of red chili in Korea's national dish of Kimchi due to the influence of the Japanese invasions in the late 1500s. Growing up, my food culture was very specific-and limited. With...

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